What can we learn from performance in music?

Dear friends, over the last month I had two opportunities to experiment with musical performance and reflect what one can learn for our work in the business world. The notion of performance is rich and somehow broader in music than it is in the business world. First, there is performance in terms of achievement, i.e. delivering […]

What can we learn from Parzival?

Parzival is an epic poem composed in the 13th century by Wolfram von Eschenbach in 16 books and a total of 24'000 lines. Is there anything that this master piece about the hero’s journey of a knight can still teach us today? With a Mountain Wisdom group of 15 business leaders we travelled to Terra […]

Have you ever been struck by lightning?

On February 21 at 5.15pm Brazil time, our sailing yacht, an X4.3 from the Danish shipyard X-Yachts, got struck by lightning. We were six people on board, and we got hit during a severe tropical storm in the bay of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro province. Luckily nobody got hurt; however, the boat’s engine, electronics, instruments […]

What did I learn during my sabbatical?

This year I celebrated a big birthday, and in addition, our firm recently had its ten-year anniversary, so it occurred to me that it is time to realize a long-time dream: going for a two-month sailing sabbatical. The idea was to sail the Greek islands, maybe an island per day, and to have friends and […]

What did we learn in 10 years of sum people?

Dear friends of sum people, on Independence Day, 4th of July 2011, we founded sum people. After 20 years as a corporate employee and coming from a family of public servants founding a company was a big step. And without you, the friends and clients of sum people, it would not have been such a […]